After 2 successful adoptions through LDS Family Services we wondered if it could happen again. We felt that putting in our adoption paperwork again was the right thing, and so that is what we did in March of 2004. The months passed slowly and, naturally, we felt a strong desire to do something rather than just waiting. After much prayer, we created an email that we passed along to friends and family members. We asked them to forward this email along to those they felt would be receptive. We also prayed that it would be well-received and that the intent of our letter would be felt and that it would not be offensive. We talked about adoption with many people, always letting them know that we were hoping to adopt again. We created an adoption website with Hope To Adopt and passed along that website in our emails and in our conversations with pass-along cards. We revisited our emailed letter every 3 or 4 months, and sent it out each time as a reminder that we were still hoping and praying for another child to join our family. We fasted many, many times and asked our family and LDS friends to fast with us. We were spiritually and emotionally intent during that time and we felt much hope through blessings and guidance received through personal revelation.
Almost two years later we were contacted by a birthmother who said she wasn’t sure what to do, but if she did choose adoption and if she felt she could follow through on that choice, she would place her baby with us. Because of the uncertainty of this situation we continued to remain open to other situations. That birthmother eventually gave birth and placed her baby girl with us in March of 2006, but in the meantime another situation had come up and through our Relief Society president we began to communicate with the birth family. 6 months after our daughter’s birth, we had another baby, our first son, join our family through a designated adoption, and as a direct result of our continued emails/updates and pleas for prayers on our behalf. There were so many people that told us that they were touched by our willingness to share our journey, our feelings and our hopes. I am so thankful we did! We feel that we were led along, step by step, in knowing what to say in our letters, when to send them, and how best to convey our feelings about adoption and how it had impacted our lives. It was a great blessing that we could share our heart-felt testimonies and experiences with more people. Not only that, but it gave us purpose, helped us feel more positive and optimistic and as though were doing all that we could do to allow our Father in Heaven to bless us with another child, if it was His will. When our babies finally came, there were scores of people that shared our joy, as they had been a part of our journey to find them. That was an added bonus that we hadn’t considered in the beginning when we first decided to open up our lives to those around us!
Sean and Elaine Curry
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